Is it normal for teens to be completely away with the bloody fairies?

[Titsywoo]

I love dd (14) but she is so bloody dopey sometimes. She's just called me from the new forest to say she forgot the tent pegs (for her groups tent for her practice d of e expedition)! She's not stupid at all but she does stuff like this quite a lot. It's like she's daydreaming half the time and not really concentrating. Is this normal?

Yup.

I think it’s pretty normal. My nearly 16yo is out the other side now, but my 13yo is in his own little world a lot of the time.

My 15 year old dd is like that with everything except DofE where apparently she's a shining leader.
She's that laid back she's almost horizontal.

Oh good god yes. I personally accompanied my DS (14) to the door of the bathroom yesterday to brush his teeth, when I came by 5 mins later he was just standing there, obviously thinking 'wtf am I doing in the bathroom?'

(Note, I don't make a habit of taking him to the bathroom, it was just we were both heading up there.)

3 teens here. Each as dopey as the next. No idea how dd1 (19) manages her job and uni course and flat. She's moving home for the summer so that will be 3 lots of general vagueness in the house!

DC now 20 and I'm glad to say we're almost out the other side...

Yup. I told my DD (just 15) she had a head full of sawdust the other day. She took this to mean I thought she was about to fail her GCSEs, and went into a monster strop. I actually meant that she rings me pretty much every day from school regarding some forgotten-yet-crucial item.

Yes. Also 14. It is driving me potty !

Yes! 2 of mine are in their teens and they are very much float around in a bubble.

Yes my 19year old DD has her head in the clouds oblivious to anything or anyone sometimes!

The part of the brain that allows for reasoned and logical thought and decision making sometimes doesn’t develop until mid 20s. Apparently that’s why!

Mid-20's?! That's a long way away...

I don't remember being this dopey as a teen. But I'm so old now I've probably forgotten

I hope she's managed to find someone with spare pegs - apparently there's a storm on the way!

I think it must be the internet, youtube, facebook etc that is making their brains mushy. Our teen son is the same - he walks around all day with his head in the phone or ipad completely oblivious to the real world going on around him.

We definitely weren't like that when we were young.

Thing is that the teen you wouldn’t have seen your behaviour as dopey!
I think teens now are expected to take responsibility for a wide range of things that I certainly wasn’t. Admitting to doing very little revision etc Mine is planning a month away after GCSE.

Yes

Yes. Mine never ceases to amaze me.

I'm still like it now